Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not primarily ideas of democracy , which , as we have seen , only enjoyed a diluted existence in the eighteenth century , but popular action , and above all the eruption of the French people into politics in the years of the Revolution , that transformed the modern history of democracy . |
| 2 | Then on Pentecost Sunday , Pentecost Day , ten days after the Ascension and fifty days after then resurrection , the apostles had an experience which not only changed them but changed the whole history of the world . |
| 3 | The houses all displayed these picture-glyphs , resembling the whorls and yantras of Tantrism , which , reading from the ground up , told the entire history of the tribe , the clan and the individual household . |
| 4 | The science on which the art was grounded comprised the natural history , anatomy , physiology and pathology of those animals , together with those portions of the vegetable and mineral kingdoms providing either aliment or remedy . |
| 5 | In this respect their position is not far removed from Richards 's , since he too ignored the external history of texts , on the assumption that the ‘ relevant experience ’ of the author is entirely accessible from his work alone . |
| 6 | Upon his death , the concept was to develop into one of papal supremacy over the emperor , a tense relationship which affected the future history of Europe . |
| 7 | We know that a Demetrius ( whom Flavius Josephus foolishly calls Demetrius of Phalerum ) composed a biblical history , including the chronological enquiries which were fashionable . |
| 8 | Lineage solidarity was perhaps the reason people told an idealized history , one consisting of the rights and duties a man had and met , rather than the devices he had to resort to , to survive . |
| 9 | While awaiting a vacancy he joined the natural history class at Edinburgh University under George James Allman [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | ‘ Long ago , ’ continued the headmaster , before the Dharjees came to Wimbledon , they shared a common history with the Ismailis . |
| 11 | After the meal Pauline Adams led a Musical History of Somerville which we greatly enjoyed . |
| 12 | The assessor 's enquiries revealed a disturbing history of trade and of failed planning permissions . |
| 13 | So began the long history of the temporal power of the pope , of the pope 's control of the Western empire , of papal monarchical powers and of the Papal State , the territories of the pope that survived until 1870 . |
| 14 | The only report investigating and supporting our finding of reduced gastric peptic activity in H pylori infection comes from an unusual case report which followed the natural history of H pylori infection in a volunteer . |
| 15 | Mr Jackson founded the Victorian History Society three years ago , when a back injury forced his retirement as a nurse at Richardson Hospital , Barnard Castle . |
| 16 | The interviews covered the psychiatric history of each woman , current psychiatric state , and detailed information about their loss of parent and parenting arrangements which followed . |
| 17 | It was a fall down the cellar steps of one of these houses which started a long history of back trouble . |
| 18 | A like court for the Hampshire forests , held at Winchester on 11 September 1672 by Sir Thomas Fanshawe , deputy Justice of the Forest , brought the long history of the Forest Eyre in the southern forests to an end . |
| 19 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 20 | Arthur wandered the streets and ate pasta on his own and learned the intricate history of Christian heresy in an Italian-language library . |
| 21 | Statements of evidence were prepared and served in accordance with the rules and a psychiatric report from a consultant psychiatrist was available at court and that gave the early history and background about this very disturbed boy . |
| 22 | The Puritans repudiated the whole history of the Church since the time of the Apostles . |
| 23 | gave a brief history , brief outline of the case . |
| 24 | Hall gave a short history of the competition and asked Tite to move for the publication of the correspondence between himself and the Treasury , so that ‘ the public will then see all that has taken place ’ . |
| 25 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 26 | But he wrote the definitive History of the Jews in England ( 1941 ) and History of the Jews in Italy ( 1946 ) , The History of the Marranos ( 1932 ) and The Jews in the Renaissance ( 1959 ) , and comprehensive , popular works such as The Short History of the Jewish People ( 1936 ) and The Jewish Contribution to Civilization ( 1938 ) . |
| 27 | His slides also illustrated the fascinating history of the Gardens and the many beautiful plants in their collections . |
| 28 | Of course the Latin fathers not only had St Paul 's reference to Christ as the propitiation ( with its notions of appeasement ) for sins , 5 they also had the whole history and logic of the Old Testament to draw on . |
| 29 | Apparently the Four Masters were seventeenth-century Franciscans from the Friary , who wrote a pro-Catholic history of Donegal . |
| 30 | She wrote a well-received history of her old school for the Essex Record Office and is working on a local history having followed up her study in this field by taking the London University Diploma in Local History . |